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Penélope Cruz
StatsBirth Name: Penélope Cruz Sánchez Age: 39, born 28 April 1974 Born and residing in: Height: 5' 6" Ethnicity: Latino / Hispanic Relationship Status: Married Partner: Javier Bardem Lists 248 votes
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Come 2009, Penelope Cruz had really made it. Previously, she'd only been one of the most famous actresses in the world. Aside from her cinematic output, she'd stared down from Ralph Lauren posters everywhere, and there was the small matter of a relationship with Tom Cruise, at the time daily tabloid fodder following his split from Nicole Kidman. Unfortunately for Cruz, everyone knew who she was, but few knew what she did. Her huge success in Europe, where she'd appeared in two movies awarded Osc
Come 2009, Penelope Cruz had really made it. Previously, she'd only been one of the most famous actresses in the world. Aside from her cinematic output, she'd stared down from Ralph Lauren posters everywhere, and there was the small matter of a relationship with Tom Cruise, at the time daily tabloid fodder following his split from Nicole Kidman. Unfortunately for Cruz, everyone knew who she was, but few knew what she did. Her huge success in Europe, where she'd appeared in two movies awarded Oscars as Best Foreign Language film and a slew of other notable productions, had passed most people by. To them, she was simply Cruise's latest glamorous squeeze. However, she kept on and, after her split from Cruise in 2004 would, with Volver two years later, become the first Spaniard to be Oscar-nominated as Best Actress in a foreign language film. When she won the Oscar in 2009, for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, she would have proven herself in two different languages. Respect was finally due.
She was born Penelope Cruz Sanchez in Madrid on the 28th of April, 1974, her first name being inspired by a song by Joan Manuel Serrat. Her father Eduardo was a retailer, her mother, Encarna, a hairdresser, the family living in the working-class suburb of Alcobendas, about five kilometres north of Madrid. She has one younger sister, Monica, a professional flamenco dancer and TV star (she'd break through in Un Paso Adelante in 2002), and one brother, also younger, named after his father. Penelope was a natural performer, mimicking TV ads as soon as she could walk but, from the age of 4, it was dance that captured her imagination and dominated her life. She spent 9 years studying classical dance at Spain's National Conservatory, including three years of ballet with Angela Garrido, and a period of jazz dance with Raul Caballero. There were also four years of courses with Cristina Rota in New York City. Dropping out of secondary education early, at 15 she beat off the 300-strong competition at an agency audition and became a part-time fashion model. Pursuing drama studies in Madrid, she also appeared in music videos, one being for the popular band Mecano with whose singer, Nacho Cano, she'd have a relationship till 1996. National fame arrived at 16 when she began to present Kids' TV programmes on Tele 5. There also arrived her first breakdown. Having studied feverishly throughout her pre-pubescence and teens, then stepped straight into pressurised work, she had over-extended herself and, having to take a break to recover from over-exhaustion, paid the penalty. This would happen again, once worldwide fame was beckoning. Now concentrating on movies, Cruz found her career progressed quickly. First, in 1991, would come an appearance in Rafael Alcazar's The Greek Labyrinth (not released till 1993), an erotic mystery where a woman became obsessed with a disappeared dancer and hired a detective to dig for clues among the man's gay lovers and dodgy acquaintances in Barcelona. Penelope would add to the intrigue as the detective's precocious daughter, entering the fray in the world's skimpiest pair of shorts and revealing a rapacious taste for older men. She'd then move on to Framed, a Lynda La Plante TV thriller (later hacked to movie-size) where Timothy Dalton played a con arrested for his part in a major heist and ostensibly grassing his partners. Holed up in a safe-house, he attempts to cannily corrupt his police guards, Cruz adding glamour as the sensuous Lola, one of playboy Dalton's girlfriends. These two would have constituted a reasonable opening to any screen career, especially as Penelope was only just 18. But she'd also now appear in two films that would make her a major player in Spain and the darling of art-houses across the globe. In Fernando Trueba's Belle Epoque, set in rural Spain in the 1930s, an army deserter is sheltered by an anarchistic artist and decides to stay on when his benefactor's four beautiful daughters arrive from Madrid. Thus begins a warm and charming celebration of sex and the human body as he seduces the young women one by one, Penelope playing Luz, the youngest, who's innocent but, annoyed at not being party to her more experienced sisters' secrets, would really rather not be. The film was a huge hit in Spain, garnering nine Goya awards. It would also take the Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film. And there'd be more success with Bigas Luna's Jamon, Jamon, a steamy sex comedy where a rich family ran an underwear factory in a provincial town. When the son of the family falls for Penelope, the lowly daughter of the local brothel-keeper, his mother hires Javier Bardem to seduce Cruz and thus end the shameful affair. But the sneaky mum then herself falls for Bardem and, what with Cruz's lover regularly visiting her prostitute mother on the sly, the film mines a rich seam of outrageous, offensive, sexy and hilarious fun. Both Cruz and Bardem would be nominated for Goyas, while the movie would take the Silver Lion at Venice. The acclaim did much to calm the furore over Penelope appearing topless, which had enraged her boyfriend, Cano. Cruz herself was deeply upset by the movie's frank sexuality, though she'd later come to appreciate how it kick-started her career. She'd have been a great deal more upset had Bigas Luna followed up on his original plan to cast her in his earlier The Ages Of Lulu. She would have been 14 and, given what happens to and around Francesca Neri in the movie, Luna would probably have found himself pursued by Interpol. Now she served a further six years' apprenticeship in Europe's burgeoning and wildly inventive movie industry, first courting more controversy in the Italian production For Love, Only For Love. This was an offbeat biopic of Joseph, father of Jesus, with Penelope starring as Mary who, after a chaste relationship with the poor carpenter, turns up several months later pregnant. He knows the child is not his, despite the talk in the town, but marries her anyway, then begins to lose it when she demands that he now remain celibate. It was vaguely blasphemous stuff, but interesting, as was The Rebel, where she played a 16-year-old dropout, arrested for shoplifting with her sister and sent to a harsh nun-run reformatory. Here, teased by the other girls for being a virgin, she falls prey to predatory boys as sex, love and tough life-decisions enter the frame. 1994 would bring Fernando Colomo's Allegre Ma Non Troppo where 20-something gay guy Pere Ponce, disapproved of by his father and dumped by his boyfriend, auditions for the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, only to discover that his dad is one of the judges. Enter Penelope as a fellow musician who, with Ponce, wins a place in the orchestra and sets about "curing" the homosexuality that's causing him all these problems, first by sending him to a psychiatrist, then by seducing him and becoming his girlfriend. It was silly, saucy stuff, all the more so when the ambitious Cruz makes a play for Ponce's father. Next came Life's A Bitch (also known as It's All Lies), another raunchy comedy concerning dysfunctional relationships. Here a series of couples would suffer problems with kids, sex and money, Coque Malla playing a misanthropist who thinks his miserable life will change if he wins the heart of Penelope, the girl of his dreams, only to discover that she sends him completely barmy. She was excellent as the highly-strung Lucia, winning Best Actress at the Peniscola Comedy Film Festival. More serious would be Entre Rojas, set in 1974 Madrid, where she played a well-bred young woman jailed for 10 years for her relationship with a dissident protesting against the brutal regime of General Franco. Once inside, her horizons are broadened by contact with intellectuals and illiterates, friends and killers, and she regains hope and her love of life. Having briefly reunited with Fernando Colomo and Coque Malla when she popped up as a party guest in The Butterfly Effect, where Malla played a Spanish student who falls for his own uninhibited aunt on a visit to London, Cruz then rejoined her Life's A Bitch director, Alvaro Armero, for Brujas - literally Witches. This would be a thoughtful drama where three women from separate generations are forced to spend a day together in a small town abandoned by its population due to the extreme heat. Contemporary Spanish society would be examined as the women discover their differences and similarities. Having headlined in both drama and comedy, now came a series of productions marked by their variety and inventiveness, Cruz clearly attempting to widen her range. First came La Celestina, a version of Fernando De Rojas's classic 1499 novel which related the tragic romance of Calisto and Melibea (a precursor to Romeo And Juliet). Here Nancho Novo's Calisto would employ his servants and wise woman Celestina to woo Cruz's Melibea, only for it all to collapse into jealousy and murder. Next Penelope would reunite with Novo and Javier Bardem when she took a cameo in Not Love, Just Frenzy, a notoriously graphic depiction of Madrid night-life, rammed with drug-use and kinky sex. This would be followed by Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health which would track a crazy on-off relationship over three decades. Penelope would appear in an early segment, as a Beatles-mad girl in 1965, who breaks into John Lennon's hotel-room and finds herself hiding under the bed with a bell-boy, while Lennon services a groupie above them. Not to be left out, they get it on themselves, thus beginning the aforementioned sporadic 30-year affair. 1997 would bring a small role in the Danish drama A Corner Of Paradise, starring Samuel Froler and set in the 1950s. Here Froler would play a Swedish botanist and early environmentalist, working on research in Costa Rica, who realises that both the forests and indigenous peoples are being gradually eradicated by Agent Orange-spraying land barons. Romantic complication would be added by Froler's relationships with his girlfriend and with Penelope, playing the daughter of one of said barons. Then, having produced Jamon, Jamon with Bigas Luna, one of Spain's great maverick directors, she moved on to the grand-daddy of them all - Pedro Almodovar - then infamous for his Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Live Flesh, again seeing her cast beside Javier Bardem, would explore the complexities of love in a tale of betrayal, adultery, violence and unrequited desire, with Cruz playing the main protagonist's mother, a doomed prostitute we see in flashback as she gives birth to him. But her big success of that year would be Alejandro's Amenabar's Open Your Eyes, a wild ride of a psychological thriller that saw Eduardo Noriega find what he thought was true love with the stunning Penelope. Unfortunately, his nutty girlfriend has other ideas and causes a car wreck that sees her killed and Noriega terribly disfigured. And then it gets really strange as he wakes up in a prison hospital, clad in a mask, accused of murder and no longer sure what has happened. Has he had an operation to rebuild his face, is he back with Cruz, and why does he keep seeing his dead girlfriend's ghost? Messing with time and minds it was a brilliant movie, fabulously entertaining and very influential, and it would have a very marked effect of Cruz's career. 1998 would be a big year for Penelope, seeing no fewer than five releases. First would come an adaptation of Moliere's Don Juan, following the adventures of an over-sexed nobleman in war-torn 17th Century Spain as he seduces castles-full of women. Penelope would play one of his victims, promised the world but given only a rogering, as would Emmanuelle Beart and Ariadna Gil (Cruz's co-star in Belle Epoque). After this, there'd be Twice Upon A Yesterday, a fantastical London-set romance where Douglas Henshall would play a cad dumped by his girlfriend but given the chance to travel back through time to sets things a-right. Penelope would play a mysterious barmaid who provides a shoulder for him to cry on. Twice Upon A Yesterday would see Cruz begin a run of predominantly English-speaking movies. Next would come Talk Of Angels (actually filmed back in 1996), based on Kate O'Brien's novel Mary Lavelle and set against the Spanish Civil War. This saw Polly Walker as a betrothed Irishwoman who flees to Spain to work as governess to the three daughters of a wealthy family, then falls for Vincent Perez, playing their older, married brother. Produced by Miramax, this bodice-ripping epic had much in common with Gone With The Wind and Penelope, still extremely youthful in her looks, would somehow manage to convince as Pilar, the eldest and most sophisticated of Walker's charges. She'd then move on to The Girl Of Your Dreams where she reunited with Belle Epoque director Fernando Trueba to tell the true story of a group of Spanish film-makers who fled the Spanish Civil War to work in Germany, only to end up under the beady eye of Goebbels, Minister of Nazi Propaganda. With the team forced to work with German actors, there was plenty of room for comedies of misunderstanding. There was also a sub-plot where Penelope, star of the show (in reality this had been Imperio Argentina) and lover of the director, is forced to shack up with the repulsive Goebbels in order to keep him sweet - an indignity that would at least win Cruz a Goya. The year would end with The Hi-Lo Country (originally a pet project of Sam Peckinpah), directed by Stephen Frears and Penelope's first Hollywood production. This would involve a bizarre love pentagon in small-town New Mexico just after World War 2, with young cattle driver Billy Crudup falling for a local man's wife, a flighty and adulterous Patricia Arquette. Arquette, though, is soon seeing Crudup's ex-marine buddy, a raucous and macho Woody Harrelson. Penelope would appear as a local good girl and Crudup's pre-war lover, who tries to persuade him that Arquette is nothing but a tramp. Having spent a week as a volunteer worker in Calcutta, Cruz donated her entire Hi-Lo paycheck to Mother Theresa's children's sanctuary (in 1997, she'd also spent two months working in Uganda, along with boyfriend Faiz Ahmad). Next Cruz would widen her scope with the French production Fanfan La Tulipe, a Luc Besson re-imagining of the life of the titular and legendary French adventurer, here played by Vincent Perez (earlier Penelope's co-star in Talk Of Angels). The movie would see Cruz reprising Gina Lollobrigida's 1951 role as the fortune-telling daughter of an army recruiting sergeant, who tricks Perez into signing up with promises that he'll enjoy a glittering career and a marriage into royalty. From then on he works towards this prize, with the swashing and buckling at a maximum. Very different would be Penelope's next Hollywood outing, the stylish psychological horror flick Gothika. Here prison psychiatrist Halle Berry is involved in an accident and wakes to find herself banged up in her own jail and accused of murdering her husband. Cruz would stand out as one of Berry's former patients, now a fellow inmate, a supremely witchy woman who believes she's being sexually abused by Satan (which she rather enjoys) and explains to Berry that, as an inmate, no one will ever believe a word she says. Stepping far from this high-budget insanity, Cruz now returned to Europe for the Italo-Spanish production Don't Move. Here a surgeon involved in an accident with his young daughter would recall the events of 15 years before when he had a fling with a destitute Penelope, remarkably playing a blowsy, gap-toothed, bow-legged tramp living on a building site. Their relationship, which begins with him raping her (again, she quite likes it, having been raped by her father from a young age) and ends with her pregnant, would allow the movie to examine the nature of parenthood, passion, commitment and the awful finality of the choices we make. Cruz would once again find herself Goya-nominated. Back in the States, Penelope would join Susan Sarandon in the ensemble cast of Chazz Palminteri's Noel, which tied together the tales of several New Yorkers, each seeking redemption on Christmas Eve. Penelope would play the long-suffering fiancee of cop Paul Walker, unable to curb his explosive jealousy even with private sexy dances and eventually having to postpone the wedding. Walker, meanwhile, is being tailed by a besotted Alan Arkin, who, strangely, believes the cop to be the reincarnation of his own dead wife. Following this Yuletide oddity, Cruz would finally see the release of the delayed Head In The Clouds, another sweeping romantic epic that would see her reunite with Charlize Theron. This had student Stuart Townsend smitten by notorious free-spirit Theron and, several years later, invited to join her in Paris. Here he finds she's a famous photographer, living with Penelope, a former stripper (and probably whore) who's now her model and lover. Cruz is also training as a nurse to help fight the fascists in Spain and draws Townsend into her idealism as war descends and the friends are tossed about on waves of heroism, espionage, betrayal and death. Head In The Clouds would see only a very limited release, but still 2004 would see Penelope dominate the headlines as her relationship with Tom Cruise now came to an end. Soon she would be seeing Matthew McConaughey, co-star of her next production, Sahara. Based on the bestselling Clive Cussler novel, this would see McConaughey as Dirk Pitt, an Indiana Jones-type adventurer who's searching for treasure on the Nile. Having saved scientist Penelope from assassination, he's drawn into her investigation into why thousands of North Africans are being driven to madness, cannibalism and death, and together they battle tyrants and billionaire industrialists as they follow clues leading all the way back to the killing of Abraham Lincoln. The movie would arrive in 2005, another busy year for Cruz. Aside from this epic, she'd see the release of Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes, sister of Ralph and Joseph, a series of interlocking tales of fraud, assault, betrayal, obsession and sexual failings and peccadillos, in part concerning the destruction of old London society by new American attitudes towards money, power, beauty and success. Another ensemble piece, this would see Damian Lewis as a young lawyer drawn into political nefariousness, and failing to satisfy his manic wife Kristin Scott Thomas and insufferably attention-seeking child. Meanwhile, Cruz is a single mum with a young daughter, providing private pole dances (and extras) for clients in order to support her daughter. One of her favourite clients is Lewis's dad, Ian Holm, for whom she dresses as a nurse and performs naughty operations. There's a real feeling of understanding between her and Holm; he's an old client and possibly the father of her child. Real drama is added first by Rhys Ifans, a social worker who may have to take the child away from her but then falls for her and recognises the efforts she's making to be a good mother. Then there's cancer. Cruz is dying and is terrified of leaving her kid unprotected. Cruz would be excellent in the role, tarty in her dress but highly moral in her dealings, pole-dancing sensually though suffering a biting pain, then quietly dying as she watches her beloved daughter sleep. Following this would come the far more physical exertions of Bandidas (again written by Luc Besson), where Cruz joined her great friend Salma Hayek in 1880s Mexico. With Penelope a European sophisticate and Hayek a peasant, the pair do not immediately hit it off, but eventually become a bank-robbing partnership (Bonnie and Bonnie, if you will) and freedom fighters battling an evil enforcer who's terrorizing a town. The movie would be fast and frenetic, and reminiscent of Louis Malle's Viva Maria!, which had seen Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau involved in Mexican revolution. Though her work was usually of the highest quality, Cruz was still seen as a risk by casting producers. Very few of her American movies had hit paydirt, Sahara in particular being a financial disaster, losing over $100 million. But 2006 would prove a turning-point, seeing her achieve a personal fame far above that she'd enjoyed when dating Tom Cruise. First, her face would be beamed worldwide as spokeswoman for L'Oreal. Then her achievements would be recognised by the French when they made her Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. And then, having split from Matthew McConaughey, she'd return to Pedro Almodovar to star in his latest opus, Volver. Here she'd play a young mother put upon by her abusive husband, running a restaurant and visited by the spirit of her own dead mother, Almodovar delivering magical realism at its most magical and real. No one could this time deny the excellence of Cruz's efforts and she would be Oscar nominated at last, as well as winning a Goya and at Cannes. 2007 would see Cruz, along with her sister Monica, launch a clothes collection for the fashion chain Mango. Onscreen she'd appear in the oddball comedy The Good Night, directed by Jake Paltrow, brother of Gwyneth. Here Martin Freeman would be trapped in an apathetic life where he endures a dull relationship with Paltrow (Gwyneth, not Jake) and suffers the success of former bandmate Simon Pegg. In his dreams, though, he comes alive, not least because that's where he encounters his perfect woman, Cruz. Learning the secrets of lucid dreaming from guru Danny DeVito, Freeman works on his relationship with Cruz, but then he meets her and brute reality begins to invade his idealistic dream-life. It was an offbeat and off-balance comedy with Cruz needing to be little more than seductive - no real stretch for her. More testing would be Manolete, where Adrien Brody would play the great bullfighter of the title, Manuel Laureano Rodriguez Sanchez, feted all over the Spanish-speaking world until his death-by-goring in 1947. Directed by Menno Meyjes, who'd earlier worked as screenwriter on several Spielberg flicks, the film would follow Manolete's last few years, concentrating on his fatal return from retirement and his tempestuous relationship with Cruz, playing the temperamental actress Lupe Sino, a left-wing star who riled the fascist government and, by living in sin with Sanchez, the church. The film would follow their passionate affair and their battles with a grim Establishment. It was a fascinating tale and a lavish production, but due to financial problems it would not appear on general release till 2009. In the meantime, Cruz would appear in the testing drama Elegy, based on the novel The Dying Animal by Philip Roth. Here Ben Kingsley would play a college professor with a habit of seducing his students. He's in a long-term relationship with Patricia Clarkson but likes these one-nighters, too. Then his cosy world is disrupted when he picks on Cruz and begins to fall for her. Love is new to him, and so's the terrible jealousy that goes with it, Kingsley being convinced that she'll soon drop him for a younger man. Thus he stalks her, checks on her, drives her away, his own love dooming itself. Then further revelations add further drama to the piece. It was excellently done, with Kingsley superb as the intellectual predator and Cruz convincing as an innocent much younger than herself. Both Cruz and Kingsley might easily have been Oscar-nominated for their work, as Cruz would be for her next venture, Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The first half of this would see American friends Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson on a trip to Spain where they're charmed by artist Javier Bardem. In the second half, when Bardem has persuaded Johansson to move in with him, Cruz makes her entrance. She's Bardem's ex, wildly talented but self-destructive, who's attempted suicide and is invited by Bardem to join him in a feisty, passionate and extremely volatile menage a trois. At first, Cruz is suspicious of Johansson, but grows into a new role as mother and muse, teaching the young tourist photography, acting as her model and having sex with both her and Bardem, as the threesome live free Bohemian lives. In fact, the innocent student Johansson is more important here than she knows, balancing the otherwise impossibly stormy relationship between Cruz and Bardem. A child prodigy in music and art, Cruz is possessed of a tempestuous soul and bitterly believes that Bardem has stolen her ideas. In the past she's attacked him with a knife and now, deeply loving but angry and profoundly moody, she may do so again. As said, Cruz would be Oscar-nominated for her efforts, meaning that she'd been nominated in both English- and Spanish-speaking roles. This time she'd actually win the Oscar, also winning a BAFTA and a Goya and being nominated for a Golden Globe. And she'd gain a new love in her co-star Bardem, a perhaps inevitable union of Spain's two most successful film actors. 2009 would see Cruz tested in a wide variety of material. In Broken Embraces, another reunion with Pedro Almodovar, she'd play a prostitute picked up and made respectable by a tycoon-come-film producer who then places her in a film directed by Lluis Homar. She becomes Homar's muse, then he's blinded and it all gets nasty as Almodovar once again explores power, sex and revenge. Exhibiting her versatility, Cruz would get to play several characters, both fictional, on film within the film, and real and changing over time. She'd be dark, serious, damaged and pursued by fate, she'd be blonde, naive and outrageous and, interestingly, for the opening sequence she'd be secretly filmed by Almodovar preparing for a scene where she'll need to cry. Wholly remote from the theatrical bustling around her, she's silently seeking her own well of personal grief. Broken Embraces would see her pick up yet another Goya nomination. She'd also pop up in the spin-off short The Cannibalistic Councillor where Carmen Machi, one of the minor character's in Broken Embraces, would eat pudding and snort coke from a giant pile as she gabbles endlessly and hilariously about she's sick of everything but sex, addressing her rant to a seemingly dead woman slumped over the kitchen table. Cruz would appear very briefly right at the start, looking fresh and happy as she says farewell and leaves the flat. Cruz would follow this by lending her voice to G-Force, a Disney 3-D pic where the government would secretly train animals to work in espionage. The team of the title would be ultra-resourceful guinea pigs, up for saving the world, Cruz playing Juarez, a sexy martial arts expert. She'd need to provide a sexy voice for her next venture, too. This was Rob Marshall's Nine, based on Fellini's 8 1/2 where Daniel Day-Lewis would play a film director blocked in his writing and enduring and enjoying enormously complex relations with the woman in his life. He's married to Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman is his muse, Judi Dench his manager, Kate Hudson a journalist who tests him, and Cruz is his mistress, Carla Albanese - flirty, impulsive and occasionally hysterical. One of her big moments would be the song A Call From The Vatican, where she'd ring Day-Lewis while he's away with Cotillard, pretend to be a representative of the Holy See to fool her rival, then tell her lover all the things she'd like to do to him. Of all the great actresses in Nine, only Cruz would be Oscar nominated, having already been nominated for a Golden Globe. She'd follow it with another high-profile movie, this time making a cameo in the sequel to the highly popular Sex And The City, filming for just three hours and serving to make Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie jealous. Still making millions from L'Oreal, Cruz is clearly keen to balance a Hollywood career with work in Spain and the rest of Europe. She's also begun to pace herself better. After filming All The Pretty Horses, she went directly to India to shoot a documentary for the Spanish Sabera Foundation (set up by former boyfriend Nacho Cano) aiming to raise money for deprived children - they've already built a home, a school and a clinic for homeless girls and TB sufferers. On her return she collapsed again, as she had done back at the age of 16. She quit smoking, returned to vegetarianism (she'd earlier been a strict veggie for some years) and began practising meditation. She plans to be around for a long while yet. Given her recent success, she surely will be. Recall that they had met since 2007. Private ceremony took place in July (date not confirmed) in the Bahamas in the house of a mutual friend. Attended only by family members of married couples. Dress for the bride made it a longtime friend of John Galliano ... 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